CVE-2025-2107
Published: 13 March 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-2107 is a high-severity SQL Injection (CWE-89) vulnerability in Wordpress (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 35.9th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 RA-5 (Vulnerability Monitoring and Scanning) and SI-10 (Information Input Validation).
Deeper analysis
CVE-2025-2107 is a SQL injection vulnerability (CWE-89) in the ArielBrailovsky-ViralAd plugin for WordPress, affecting all versions up to and including 1.0.8. The issue arises in the printResultAndDie() function due to insufficient escaping of the user-supplied 'id' parameter and lack of proper preparation in the existing SQL query, enabling attackers to append additional SQL queries. The vulnerability has a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.5 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N) and was published on 2025-03-13.
Unauthenticated attackers with network access can exploit this vulnerability with low complexity to inject and execute appended SQL queries, resulting in the extraction of sensitive information from the database. This appears to be limited to very old versions of WordPress, reducing the attack surface for sites running modern installations.
Advisories from Wordfence and references to the plugin's source code in anuncio.php (line 105) and the WordPress plugin directory detail the vulnerability but do not specify patches beyond version 1.0.8. Security practitioners should consult these resources—https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c6c846c8-df8a-4a95-834e-a9443b6a86b5?source=cve, https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/arielbrailovsky-viralad/trunk/inc/anuncio.php#L105, and https://wordpress.org/plugins/arielbrailovsky-viralad/—for recommended mitigations, such as plugin deactivation or removal on affected sites.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-6424
Vulnerability details
The ArielBrailovsky-ViralAd plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the 'id' parameter of the printResultAndDie() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.8 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation…
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on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database. This only appears to be exploitable on very old versions of WordPress.
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Related Threats
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Why these techniques?
SQL injection in public-facing WordPress plugin enables unauthenticated exploitation for initial access (T1190) and direct database data extraction (T1213.006).
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Directly addresses the SQL injection by requiring validation of the user-supplied 'id' parameter to counter insufficient escaping and lack of SQL query preparation.
Mandates timely identification, reporting, and correction of the SQL injection flaw in the ArielBrailovsky-ViralAd plugin up to version 1.0.8.
Requires vulnerability scanning of web applications like WordPress to identify the SQL injection vulnerability in the plugin's printResultAndDie() function.